Denial doesn't really work for me.
I know I have HH, I know most other people haven't, I know other people can't help but notice especially when touching my skin, so I know it affects my interaction with other people mostly (and certainly on balance) in a negative way. I simply can't pretend that all of those things don't happen.
IMO, denial of real issues you are confronted with on a daily basis never helps, especially not with something that is a long term problem like HH, it's not like you can 'sit it out' a few weeks till it's over.
Denial also has that other pesky characteristic about it, in that when you deny a problem you're not going to continue to try and do whatever you can (however futile it sometimes seems) to get a resolution to said problem. In many ways denial of HH as a serious ailment may well have contributed to there not being a solution yet, as the medical world has long 'denied' that HH is a serious problem (and still does to some extent, although there is now much more attention for it than ever before I think).
For me the best I can manage is say 'ok I do have this problem with HH that f's up the life I would have had otherwise in ways I don't even want to contemplate, but I'll try to still live a little once in a while if the oppertunity arises'. But I can't say 'oh it's not that big of a deal anyway'...cause it simply is.
I know the OP has nothing but good intentions and has HH himself so I get it...but if some advise like this comes from someone without HH I for one always get a little bit miffed.
